(You'll need an up-to-date version of Google Chrome
to play the videos. You'll also need decent internet bandwidth to do
streaming (2 MBit/s should be sufficient). If your internet accesss is
too slow, you can always right click and download the video.

As
far as the videos are concerned, Internet Explorer and Safari are not
supported, because they do not understand the video format we're using.

And Chrome behaves much better than Firefox with the new lecture video player, to the point of Firefox not even starting up properly. We're currently investigating. In the meantime, please use Chrome.

Updates

We're moving to a bigger room! We'll be meeting in room 101 of Warren Weaver Hall from September 12 onward.

Aug 21, 2012

If
you're from outside of Courant, you may encounter some difficulty
registering for the class. We're fighting with the NYU administration to
make this better. In the meantime, please get in touch with us. This
class is most definitely open to students from other departments, NYU
Albert apparently just hasn't gotten the memo.

Aug 9, 2012

Less
than a month to go! Class starts on September 5, 2012, from 5-7pm.
We've also been assigned a room. We will be meeting in Warren Weaver
Hall, room 512 (but check back here just in case there are changes in
the meantime). See you then!

Grading/Evaluation

If you will be taking the class for credit, there will be

Weekly homework (60% of your grade)

A more ambitious final project, which may be inspired by your own research needs (40% of your grade) (also see /ProjectSubmissionGuidelines)

If you're planning on auditing or just sitting in, you are more than welcome.

Primary source material

These
are the technical standards on which this class will be based. While
sometimes a bit technical, these documents define whether the programs
you write are correct (or not) or, perhaps result in undefined behavior:

Installing MPE into the virtual machine

Change into the directory where the script resides and start the installation:

sudo bash install-mpe.sh

If the script says

*** SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED MPE

then you should be able to use mpecc and jumpshot from now on. Note that jumpshot
seems to have a habit of creating its main window title bar underneath
the top panel, so that you can't move it. A solution is to right-click
the task bar entry for Jumpshot, and click "Move".

Notes:

You need to be online for the entire run time of the script.

Depending
on your machine and internet connection, the script may take around
half an hour to finish. (10 minutes just now on my laptop, but that's a
fairly fast machine on a fast connection)

It is best to leave the computer alone while it is processing the script.

This script is only
intended for the class virtual machine, and even then you are using it
at your own risk. I highly recommend that you use Virtualbox to create a
system restore point before you attempt the installation, in case
something goes awry. Do not attempt to use this on a Mac or another
Linux machine.